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Where have all the heroes gone? : The changing nature of american valor / Bruce Peabody and Krista Jenkins

Peabody, Bruce Garen,i1969- [Verfasser] ; Jenkins, Krista [Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) : Diagramme

978-0-19-998297-4 ; 978-0-19-998296-7

MS 1235

 

USA  Öffentliche Meinung  Soziologie  Tapferkeit  Held 

Where Have All the Heroes Gone? provides an analysis of heroism's application and meaning among political and media elites, as well as the mass public over the past fifty years. In asking "what has happened" to American heroes over this span, it explores how heroes are used strategically by governing officials and providers of media content in ways that are frequently divergent from and even directly opposed to popular expectations.